Lord Byron Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like 'What Sarah Said': I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
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Distances did nothing. It’s all here.
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Chanel is a very important vendor for Neiman Marcus. My favorite thing is the way they finish off the hems on dresses and jackets.
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So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
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Some defeats are only installments to victory.
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'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.
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The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.
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Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
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It’s better to live as “Mr. Good guy” to a few people who trust you rather than living as “Mr. Perfect” to many people who talk behind you.
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Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.
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I don't care if I play on the wing or in the middle. There is no difference.
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What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
